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HARDWICKE'S SCIENCE-GOSSIP. 



[Sept. 1, 1867. 



NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS. 



All communications relative to advertisements, post-office 

 orders, and orders for the supply of this Journal should be 

 addressed to the Publisher.. All contributions, books, 

 and pamphlets for the Editor should be sent to 192, 

 Piccadilly, London, W. To avoid disappointment, contri- 

 butions should not be received later than the 1 5th of each 

 month. No notice whatever can be taken of communi- 

 cations which do not contain the name and address of the 

 writer, not necessarily for publication, if desired to be with- 

 held. We do not undertake to answer any queries not 

 specially connected with Natural History, in accordance 

 with our acceptance of that term ; nor can we answer 

 queries which might be solved by the correspondent by an 

 appeal to any elementary book on the subject. We are 

 always prepared to accept queries of. a critical nature, and 

 to publish the replies, provided some of our readers, besides 

 the querist, are likely to be interested in them. We 

 cannot undertake to return rejected manuscripts unless 

 •sufficient stamps are enclosed to cover the return postage. 

 Neither can we promise to refer to or return any manu- 

 script after one month from the date of its receipt. All 

 microscopical drawings intended for publication should 

 have annexed thereto the powers employed, or the extent 

 of enlargement, indicated in diameters (thus : x 320 

 diameters). Communications intended for publication 

 should be written on one side of the paper only, and all 

 scientific names, and names of* places and individuals 

 should be as legible as possible. Wherever scientific names 

 or technicalities are employed, it is hoped that the common 

 names will accompany them. Lists or tables are inad- 

 missible under any circumstances. Those of the popular 

 names of British plants and animals are retained and regis- 

 tered for publication when sufficiently complete for that 

 purpose, in whatever form may then be decided upon. 

 Address No. 192, Piccadii.lv, London, W. 



W. E. M. — We regret our inability to inform you where you 

 can obtain the deposit you require. 



B. L. W. — The "lumps" on willow-leaves are galls pro- 

 duced by an insect. If you will rear the insect from the 

 galls and send it, we will endeavour to name it for you. 



j, s. — We are informed that a complete catalogue of 

 British Mosses is in course of preparation. 



F. A. W.— In the winter, when living food for your frogs 

 cannot be found, they will not require it. Have you really 

 forgotten that reptiles hybernate ? 



C. E. D. will only find what she requires by searching 

 through numerous volumes, such as Gould's " Birds of 

 Asia," &c. &c. 



J. B. L. — No. 1, Oithotrichum pulchellum ; 2, Bryum pseu- 

 do-triquetrum ; 3, Climacium dendroides. — R. B. 



G. C. B. (Darjeeling). — The plants are Isopyrum thalic- 

 troides, L., and Hymenophyllum ciliatum, Sw., the latter new 

 to India, although well known in tropical America and Asia, 

 and has lately turned up in New Zealand. Will our corre- 

 spondent forward herbarium specimen for one of our national 

 collections.— J. G. B. 



I. R. B. — You will find all particulars respecting mounting 

 seaweed in " Davies on Mounting, &c. " (price 2s. 6d.). 



T. P. — More extraordinary instances of tame fish than that 

 you describe are on record. Did you never hear of the trained 

 "gold fish of the Chinese ? 



G. B. C— Communications acknowledged but not inserted 

 should be considered as declined. 



Silkworms.— We fear that Miss B. will be much disap- 

 pointed in rearing silk and selling it. Dr. Wallace, of Col- 

 chester, did supply eggs of the Ailanthas silkworm. 



J. R. W. — No. 4, Cares panicea; 5, Eriophorum angusti- 

 folium. 



W. R. — No. 4 is Luzula campestris.— R. B. 



J. C. D.— Sphagnum acutifolium ? 



T. H., Jun.— No. 3, Bartramia fontana ; 4, Homalothecium 

 sericeum. — R. B. 



T. P. F. — The white substance on beech-trees formerly 

 classed as a fungus, under the name of Psilonia nivea, is an 

 insect production. 



A. G. W. — We are desired to inform you of your mistake, 

 the fungus being the common Stinkhorn (Phallus impu- 

 dicus). 



W. D. R. — No book published with coloured figures of all 

 the British Neuroptera. Coloured figures of British moths 

 are contained in Wood's Index Entomologicus, which may be 

 had for about £i. 



W. M. J.— No. 1, Pellaia hastata; 2, Pteris longifolia; 3, 

 Aspidium I'Cyrtomium) falcatum.— J. G. B. 



J. H. R. — Galeopsis Ladanum and Carex ovalis. — J. G. B. 



G. E. B. (Darjeeling'). — Polygonum molle (Don), and Sym- 

 plocos ramosissima Wall.). — J. G. B. 



W. G.— The form and position of the basal ray-plates in 

 your little star show it to be Ophiocoma neglecta of Forbes 

 (Br. Star Fishes p. '30), Ophiura elegans of Leach (Zool. 

 Misc., ii. 57). Opliiolepis elegans of Gray (Cat. of Radiata 

 B. M., p. 24).— P. H. G. 



Clare. — The Beetle is a female of Saperda carcharias, not 

 at all common in Britain. — W. H. B. 



W. H.— We are not aware of any means of obtaining the 

 scientific journals for perusal, except by purchasing them, or 

 as member of some scientific society. 



A. L.— The fern is Pteris tremula, Br.— J. G. B. 



D. W. R. — The caterpillar of Acronyeta Psi. 



EXCHANGES. 



Beetles. — Carded specimens of British Beetles in ex- 

 change for other species. — James Walkden, 89, Grosvenor- 

 street, Manchester. 



Zeolite or Needlestone (Crystals) from the Giant's Cause- 

 way, affording beautiful slides for the polariscope, in exchange 

 for other objects. — William Gray, Mount Charles, Belfast. 



Eggs of Ringed Plover, Snipe, Teal, &c, offered for those 

 of the Cuckoo, Kingfisher, &c— Mrs. C. Battersby, Cromlyn, 

 Rathowen, Westmeath. 



Alpine Plants in exchange for others in good condition. 

 — T. Howse, Jun , Garrybank, West Hill, Upper Sydenham. 



British Mosses. — Specimens of fifty species for British 

 Grasses, Sedges, or Willows. Lists exchanged. — R. A., 

 Leegomery-road, Wellington, Salop. 



Echinus Spines. — Acrocladia trigonaria from Feejee 

 Islands, unmounted sections for other objects.— Lists to E. 

 Marks, 6, Holford-square, Pentonville, W.C. 



Melicerta ringens may be obtained on application to 

 A. Nicholson, Fareham. A small bottle or sealed quill should 

 accompany the request. 



Fossil Wood, Fossils from the Chalk, &c, for other 

 Fossils.— Address, F. Stanley, Harold-road, Newtown, Mar- 

 gate. 



Hipparchia semele, &c, for other Lepidoptera in good 

 condition.— D. Baxendale, Akroydon, Halifax. 



Raspberry Brand.— Aregma gracile. — Send stamped and 

 directed envelope to T. W. W., 53, Buckingham-place, 

 Brighton. 



Vicia sylvatica for Gonepteryx Rhamni, or Arge Gala- 

 thea. — W. D. Robinson, 2, Shandwick-place, E. 



Polariscope Objects (Crystals, &c, mounted) for ex- 

 change.— A. L., 61, Buckingham-road, N. 



Acvaktiiss i.osgipes, Diatoma vnlgare, or Synedra 

 radians (mounted), for other mounted Diatoms. — E. Capron, 

 Shere, near Guildlord. 



British Land and Freshwater Shells offered for common 

 Echinodermata. — W. H. G., Vernon Cottage, Thornhill-road, 

 N. 



British Birds' Eggs in exchange for others.— James W. 

 Lloyd, Kington. 



BOOKS RECEIVED. 



"The London Catalogue of British Plants." Sixth edition. 

 London: Robert Hardwicke. 186". 



"The American Naturalist," July, 1857. No. 5. Salem: 

 Essex Institute. 



"Proceedings of the Essex Institute." Vol. V., No. 3. 

 Salem : Published by the Essex Institute, June, I867. 



" A Trip to the Land's End," by the Rev. M. C. T. Sturman, 

 B.A —London : E. Billing & Son, 152, Bermondsey-street. 



"The Naturalist's Circular for July and August, I867." 

 London. 



" Second Report of the Quekett Microscopical Club, July, 

 1867." 



" Symons's Monthly Meteorological Magazine," No. XIX., 

 August, 1 867. London: E.Stanford. 



" Country Life," Nos. I. and II. London: 10, Bolt-court, 

 Fleet- street. 



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